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Monumento a Los Ojos

Ambite, Spain

An outsider folly near Madrid. 

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Built in the 1960s by Federico Diaz Falcon, the three arches of the Monumento a Los Ojos are covered in decorative plates.

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Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (Collegiate Church of Pastrana) Crypt
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General view of the crypt.
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To fit bodies into this Renaissance crypt, they were first left to decompose in the crypt's rotting room.
A white stork in its nest atop one of the incomplete spires, 5 Mar. 2011
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Not far from Madrid, a set of perfectly preserved trenches date back to the Spanish Civil War.
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